The Last Librarian Quotes

“There are a million ways to create. It’s not always typing words, painting pictures, or acting in a play. And you don’t get to decide which is correct.”
― Brandt Legg, The Last Librarian

“Some books are so alive that they never leave you. They only change you”
― Brandt Legg, The Last Librarian

“Peace at gunpoint is not peace.”
― Brandt Legg, The Last Librarian

“A dusty old plaque hung on the far side of his cramped office. He hadn’t read it for years, but suddenly it had new meaning. “Libraries should be open to all—except the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.” – John F. Kennedy, October 29, 1960.”
― Brandt Legg, The Last Librarian

“A funny word. E-lec-tion. Say it very slowly and it sounds disgusting. But if you say it just fast enough it almost sounds real, like it might even be legitimate”
― Brandt Legg, The Last Librarian

“More powerful than armies and police, stronger than guns and bombs, words are what change the world, and that is why they’re always a threat to those that rule with corrupt ways”
― Brandt Legg, The Last Librarian

“They’re afraid. It’s the same as it always has been. A corrupt leader needs to control what the people think so they don’t revolt. There are three ways to do that: don’t allow them to learn anything that counters the official line, bombard them with propaganda disguised as news, and finally, give them a distraction, usually an enemy.”
― Brandt Legg, The Last Librarian

“Books are more than words, they’re dreams, ideas, and answers, and that is why they fear them,”
― Brandt Legg, The Last Librarian

“To: Runit Happerman, Head Librarian, Portland Public Library. From: Multnomah County Board. The Board has been notified by the Aylantik Government that the Portland Library will be permanently closed ten days from the above date. A meeting will be held on the Field today at ten-hundred to resolve pending issues. Closing will be facilitated by the AOI.”
― Brandt Legg, The Last Librarian

“In truth, a library contains the entire universe, and each book is a portal to a different world.”
― Brandt Legg, The Last Librarian

“Isaac Asimov once wrote, ‘It isn't just a library, it is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of the Universe, a time machine that will take you to the far past and the far future, a teacher that knows more than any human being, a friend that will amuse you and console you -- and most of all, a gateway, to a better, happier, and more useful life”
― Brandt Legg, The Last Librarian

“An ebook is like having a photo of a dead loved one. It’s convenient to look at and it will stir the mind, but it doesn’t breathe.”
― Brandt Legg, The Last Librarian

“I am not running, I am seeking. I am not hiding, I am finding.”
― Brandt Legg, The Last Librarian

“Of all the many things I know, which is nearly everything, one thing I don’t know is what it feels like to be as inept as you are.” Blaise”
― Brandt Legg, The Last Librarian

“What is a life without meaning? A strange and empty walk alone in the cold.”
― Brandt Legg, The Last Librarian

“we weren’t even free when we were free, but all we have now is a beautiful lie.”
― Brandt Legg, The Last Librarian

“All that we don’t know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.”
― Brandt Legg, The Last Librarian

“Libraries should be open to all—except the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.” – John F. Kennedy, October 29, 1960.”
― Brandt Legg, The Last Librarian

“But they didn’t give you everything,” she said as VMs interacted with holograms and light-forms depicting every possible outcome with CAAP in place. Most of the millions of outcomes led to disaster for Deuce Lipton, many even had Miner’s greatest rival winding up in an AOI prison.”
― Brandt Legg, The Last Librarian

“How could there ever be a real moral reason for war?' Harper would ask rhetorically. 'It always comes down to someone’s greed. History is populated by the distorted tyrants and corrupt businessmen willing to trade a cup full of blood for a purse filled with gold.”
― Brandt Legg, The Last Librarian

“Life is too short for retribution, grudges, and hate. Forgiveness is a beautiful power.”
― Brandt Legg, The Last Librarian

“Books are more than words, they’re dreams, ideas, and answers, and that is why they fear them”
― Brandt Legg, The Last Librarian

“He believed in books, more than in people, because everything was discoverable within the pages. Read and think, and one could understand.”
― Brandt Legg, The Last Librarian

“Dickens could have been talking about 2098. ‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
― Brandt Legg, The Last Librarian

“Corrupt people fear books because they contain something more powerful than themselves: ideas.”
― Brandt Legg, The Last Librarian

“Change lies sleeping within books, just waiting for the covers to be opened.”
― Brandt Legg, The Last Librarian

“Kafka said, ‘All language is but a poor translation.”
― Brandt Legg, The Last Librarian

“Lewis Carroll’s Alice In Wonderland. “I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.”
― Brandt Legg, The Last Librarian

“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.’ Oscar Wilde.”
― Brandt Legg, The Last Librarian

“if the world isn’t what it appears, if something is wrong and we can fix it, I’d rather be brave and true than safe.”
― Brandt Legg, The Last Librarian